It’s 10 a.m. Friday morning at Temple Beth Sholom’s preschool, and teacher Diane Acquistapace is helping a dozen toddlers get ready for Shabbat. “You put your challah in, you put your challah out, you ...
As a newly observant Jew, Mark Wilcox realized he’s got a problem. He can’t read Hebrew. Wilcox, 38, an Olney, Md., business consultant, and his wife decided to become Orthodox two years ago. But ...
Ever since I was a child, I have been terrified of rooms full of children — a strange trait for a Hebrew-school teacher. Yes, I adore kids one-on-one, but large groups of them scare me. I thought this ...
“It’s no sin to be a lefty and she’s always right,” instructs Rabbi Elie Stern of Westwood Kehilla in West Los Angeles. His adult students follow along in their textbooks, nodding and mumbling to ...
The Consortium for the Teaching of Hebrew Language and Culture aims to transform Hebrew teaching and learning on an international scale. Izzy Pludwinski's Brush Aleph-bet, 2007, "The Beauty of the ...